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The comeback kings, have it all to do in Seville, as FC Barcelona lost the first leg at home , 1-2 against Sevilla FC.
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After Lionel Messi’s hand of god, it is time for another edition of Caption This. As you can see from the picture above, this is indeed the very special kung-fu edition, proudly sponsored by Abidal. Leave your say, in the comments below.
In his weekly column for Catalan newspaper El Periodico, Dutchman and former Barcelona manager, Johan Cruyff, gave the Camp Nou faithful a piece of advice: Support Chygrynskiy if you want Guardiola to stay.
Seydou Keita told in an interview to the French newspaper, Le Parisien, that he was shocked and scared, when he heard about the guerilla, who attacked Togo’s bus on Friday. Two members of Togo’s team have died, including the bus driver after the attack, while one of their goalkeepers are hospitalized at Johannesburg Hospital.
In an article carried by the Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo said, FC Barcelona and Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure (26) is again fuelling rumours about his intention to leave the Catalan club even though he had just renewed his contract until June 2012.
The unsettled player’s name kept cropping up in the rumour-mills, reports and interviews since this summer transfer window because his agent, Dimitri Seluk made a mess of his contract renewal negotiations by hinting at all sorts of club-move threats when talking to the media.
Caught by a ‘Eurosport’ news gathering crew during the current African Nations Cup, Yaya gave a quick interview along with his brother, Kolo.
LEO WANTS THE PICHICHI
The crack has challenged himself to be the best Liga striker.
He has a goal left to be the youngest Barça player to score 100 goals.
Sergio Canales, target.
Pep reviewed the Sevilla – Barça match while the team was coming back from Tenerife.
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Oswaldo already wears white and blue. “I came here to stay”.
African Nations Cup: Surprise in Angola, pain in Togo.
“WE’LL QUALIFY IN COPA DEL REY”
This was what Xavi promised to Laporta in “Festa de l’esport català” (Catalan sports party)
In the pic: Xavi recieves the Best Catalan Sportsman of the Year award and Laporta the Best Team award.
The president doesn’t lose hope: “There’s room for a unique candidacy”
The best league start for Messi. He hass scored two more goals and gave one more assist than the last season.
[Non Barça Related]
Oswaldo: “I want to convince them so I can stay here”
Benzema, tired of being a substitute. “I’m disappointed”.
It was a quiet match for FC Barcelona’s midfielder Yaya Toure in his nation’s first match in the 2010 African Nations Cup as Cote d’Ivoire was held to a goalless draw by Group B and tournament’s minnow Burkina Faso today.
Tagged as the favourite, Cote d’Ivoire did try their best to live up to their reputation as early as the fifth minute with Yaya having the first real sight on goal after a good Gervinho’s cross from the right, but could not get his shot right.
Ten minutes after the interval, Kone was played through by the Barcelona player but the forward’s shot went wide of its mark, and missed another sitter 13 minutes later when he finished off a swift counter-attack by lashing horribly wide from six yards out following another fine cross from Gervinho.
Barça Atlètic are unbeaten in 14 games, which beats the best streak so far under Luis Enrique, which was 13 last season. And they have also consolidated their second place, a point behind leaders Sant Andreu.
This article is to keep track of our loan out player Alberto Botía, who now plays for Sporting Gijón.
| Minutes- | Goals- | Assists- | Yellow cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1176 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
(UPDATE)
Ed. This is what I can gather about the promise @ http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/promesa-incumplida-pep-guardiola/ANCHOR/20100110dasdaiftb_44/Tes
It was 20 June 1993. Due to his injury, Pep was not able to play in the away match against Athletic Bilbao during the last matchday of the 1992-93 season, so he was assigned by the team, along with Serna and Busquets, to listen a live radio broadcast about the Tenerife vs. Real Madrid match, at the Estadio Heliodoro, which was played concurrently – a result that determined the Liga champion for that season.
That day, Barcelona lose 0-1 but so did Real Madrid 0-2, keeping the status-quo in the table thus giving Barcelona the back-to-back titles – a 58 to57 points difference. All thanks to Tenerife.
As usual, you can find the pictures awaiting after the jump.
A CRACK’S HAND*
Bojan breaks Tenerife with three assists that were finished by Messi, who scored a hat-trick
The team found itself in a thrashing which clears all the doubts about this team.
Leo is pichichi: he has scored 12 goals, like Villa, and 99 in Barça
[Non Barça Related]
Higuaín shines for the galacticos against a frozen Mallorca.
Togo, forced to quit the African Nations Cup and Keita scored twice.
* In football, “mano” or “manita” (de goles) means “to score five goals in a match”, as the hand (“mano”) has five fingers.
SUPER-HAPPY, SUPER-CALM
Tenerife 0 – 5 Barça
Barça thrashes Tenerife and proves who is the true La Liga leader.
Great Messi-Bojan tandem. Leo scored three goals assisted by Krkic and he is now pichichi.
Those who spoke about “crisis” in Barça made a fool of themselves.
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Madrid didn’t fail under the snow.
Keita scored two goals in an epic comeback.
Coming off the bench in the 34th minute to replace the injured Real Madrid’s Mahamadou Diarra, Seydou Keita was the catalyst in Mali’s 2010 African Nations Cup tournament’s opening match epic comeback fight last night.
Due to a two centimetres tear in his right thigh’s hamstring muscle he picked up during the Club World Cup Final last month, the FC Barcelona midfielder was not even expected to be able to participate in the early stages of the competition. However, with the help of the recovery program set up by the club’s medical services, Keita seemed to have recovered earlier than predicted, and crucially, still maintain his playing form.
The player was in the thick of things for Mali, especially in the second half. Before he led the comeback, Keita was guilty of conceding a penalty when he was adjudged to have brought down Angola’s Gilberto – a rather harsh decision by the referee – in the 74th minute. Manucho stepped up to convert (4-0).
The first win of 2010 certainly deserves a little more analysis – find out how the players rated in this tremendous win.
After a slow start, which saw Tenerife being the most dangerous team in the final part of the pitch, Messi finally broke the deadlock in the 36th minute, and from there onwards the goals just kept coming.
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